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===== THE BRIGHT STREAM FROM THE BOLSHOI BALLET MOSCOW =====
OVERVIEW

Live on Sunday, April 29 at 11am EDT\\

Running time: 125 minutes including 1 intermission\\
10:40 - 11:00am  Views of Moscow\\
11:00 - 11:05am Introduction by Katerina Novikova \\
11:05 - 11:50am  Act 1\\
11:50am - 12:15pm  Intermission\\
12:15 - 1:10pm  Act 2 \\

Laughter rings across the theatre (NYTimes) in The Bright Stream, a comical ballet that celebrates the maddening, baffling nature of love. The story, by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov, tells of members of a Russian farm collective in the 1930's, and what happens when a group of visiting performers descend on their harvest festival. With such a loveable, positive plot, its hard to see why Stalin banned this work in 1936  and why it wasnt staged again until 2003. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky uses Shostakovichs robust folk music to tell this zany tale, broadcast from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Starring Svetlana Lunkina, Mikhail Lobukhin, Maria Alexandrova, Ruslan Skvortsov, Denis Savin and Alexey Loparevich.

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